Spreading the essence of empathy: an NGO experience in Patient Navigation

Spreading the essence of empathy: an NGO experience in Patient Navigation – Dr. Anupama Mukherjee, Goa On a rainy evening, during a routine visit to the Medical Oncology ward at the Goa Medical College and Hospital, Goa, we chanced upon a weak yet playful boy curled up at his bed by the window-side. The nurses…

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Online training program on ‘Pediatric Palliative Care’

Register for the online training program on ‘Pediatric Palliative Care’ The Department of Palliative Medicine at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, is organizing an online training program on “Pediatric Palliative Care”, to train Doctors and Nurses to meet the growing demand for Pediatric Palliative Care services at various health care settings. The course aims to train…

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We Celebrate Mothers

Mother’s day 9th May The World celebrates Mother’s Day on 9th May each year, with renewed enthusiasm, grandeur and gratitude. Our Social media networks, the commercial ads and every other platform get flooded with portraits of a ‘Mother’ and enlists her various attributes and virtues of unconditional love, sacrifice, patience, heroic, suffering and many more……

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Mother’s Lap!

Mother’s lap! Is that the abode of solace for her dying baby? Author: Dr Lulu MathewsProgram Director, Academics, Institute of Palliative Medicine(WHOCC for Community Participation in Palliative Care and Long-term Care), Kozhikode, Kerala. Where would you like to die? In whose arms? This question when posed to an adult, you are unlikely to get a…

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AIIMS ELNEC Program

End of Life Nursing Education Consortium joined hands with AIIMS to teach the nurses under the guidance of Prof. Sushma Bhatnager HOD Anaesthesia, Pain and Palliative Medicine AIIMS New Delhi in collaboration with Cipla palliative care and training centre.     Goal for the programme was to educate the nurses in large number for end…

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Project ECHO Paediatric Palliative Care (PPC)

Project ECHO PCC will connect experts in pediatric palliative care with health care workers caring for children with life-limiting conditions across South Asia, and provide practical training using web-based video conferencing. Register by completing the registration form https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/P7G3WLN Contact Ms. Vineela Rapelli if you have any questions: vineela.rapelli@gmail.com

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Free training programme for doctors and nurses on paediatric palliative care

IAPC’s Children’s Palliative Care (CPC) Project is organising a free four-week training programme on paediatric palliative care for doctors and nurses at Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai. The three-day contact session from September 29 to October 1, 2014 will be followed by two weeks of home-based case studies and assignments. The last week will be devoted…

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